Golly, gee! the Skunk Works has revealed what they are working on?????
Give me a break! They have never done that with their secret projects. It doesn't make sense.
Now, don't go mentioning the F-117 stealth fighter and the B-2 bomber as evidence for their pre-talking their in-development stuff. Both of those
are subsonic craft and not worth a whit during a real shooting match The are cover for the real business going on and are nice, make-work projects
for America's last industrial block, the aerospace industry. And it looks like you could add the F-22 and the F-35 to make a well-rounded,
impractical bunch. They, of course, will make great export fighters for our "friends."

If you follow the general world news of things seen moving--not flying, but moving--in the sky, namely typical UFO and black triangle reports by
citizens, you will have other good evidence for a completely new, secret industry that produces that style of equipment. Of course, true UFOs come
from off-world, but sightings of the triangles in the last three decades are an indication that using air and propulsion to literally fly are a tad
outdated by our defense industries. The concepts for triangles come directly from the half a century of noting the physics of the original UFOs.

This is really interesting. They have apparently developed an off the shelf fighter type engine that can get fast enough for a ramjet to take over,
and a ramjet capable of operating at lower than usual speeds for that type of engine.

It looks like this is a compromise of the original Falcon concept of a turbine engine to Mach 4 then a scram jet to mach 10.
They've been publicly working on the Falcon project for the last 10+ years or so and they retired the SR71 in 98' so it's a safe bet that they have
had something along these lines for some time now. After all, if it's being talked about now it can't be the newest and greatest that been
developed.

Hey Zaph? Remember our talk a bit back on an article you brought up. The pilots story of the run from the US. Then got a breathtaking view over the
Azors. His blackbird had to be at precise locations to refuel before proceeding to Israel. Then had a oil light come on.
Well this question is about fuel. What would it take to keep Black swift aloft. Or will sub orbit handle that.

That last article I mentioned... I thought in my mind was it for any new Hypersonic recon aircraft for the U.S..
This is a pleasant surprise.

The link you supplied goes back to 2007. Which leads me also to believe this projects been around awhile. And further along then being told. Is this
the mysterious jet being reported blasting out of the U.S. and landing in northern U.K. or Scotland? Or is that just myth?

reading the article they've been working on the engine issue for some 7 years.

Although further studies were conducted after the demise of the HTV-3X under the follow-on Darpa Mode-Transition program, that fell by the
wayside, too, after completion of a TBCC engine model in 2009-10. So, Lockheed Martin and Aerojet Rocketdyne “sat down as two companies and asked
ourselves, ‘Can we make it work? What are we still missing?’” says Leland. “A Mach 4 turbine is what gets you there, and we’ve been working
with Rocketdyne on this problem for the last seven years.”

Finally, he says, the two achieved a design breakthrough that will enable the development of a viable hypersonic SR-71 replacement. “We have
developed a way to work with an off-the-shelf fighter-class engine like the F100/F110,” notes Leland. The work, which includes modifying the ramjet
to adapt to a lower takeover speed, is “the key enabler to make this airplane practical, and to making it both near-term and affordable,” he
explains. “Even if the HiSTED engines were successful, and even if Blackswift flew, we’d have had to scale up those tiny turbines, and that would
have cost billions.”

This is very cool.
I've always been fascinated by military aircraft.
Nothing like watching a B1-B bomber buzz the tower.

Boomer135 mentioned in another thread somewhere that the AF still flies the KC135Q's with separate tanks to carry JP-7 and JP-8 fuels, so the AF still
has something in the air that drinks JP-7. The SR-71 used JP-7 fuel.
Zaph, maybe you can correct me...do we have non-black world jets that burn JP-7 on a regular basis that would need a fleet of tankers carrying
JP-7?

Boomer135 mentioned in another thread somewhere that the AF still flies the KC135Q's with separate tanks to carry JP-7 and JP-8 fuels, so the AF
still has something in the air that drinks JP-7. The SR-71 used JP-7 fuel.
Zaph, maybe you can correct me...do we have non-black world jets that burn JP-7 on a regular basis that would need a fleet of tankers carrying
JP-7?

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